UITextView starts at Bottom or Middle of the text

Question

I'll get right to it. I have a UItextView placed in my view that when needs to scroll to see all the text (when a lot of text is present in the textView) the textView starts in the middle of the text sometimes and the bottom of the text other times.

Editing is not enabled on the textView. I need a way to force the textView to start at the top, every time. I saw some questions somewhat like this where other people used a content offset, but I do not really know how that works or if it would even be applicable here.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

That did the trick for me!

Objective C:

[self.textView scrollRangeToVisible:NSMakeRange(0, 0)];

Swift:

self.textView.scrollRangeToVisible(NSMakeRange(0, 0))

Swift 2 (Alternate Solution)

Add this override method to your ViewController

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
    super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
    textView.setContentOffset(CGPointZero, animated: false)
}

Swift 3 & 4 (syntax edit)

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
  super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()

  textView.contentOffset = .zero
}

Answer 2

All of the answers above did not work for me. However, the secret turns out to be to implement your solution within an override of viewDidLayoutSubviews, as in:

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
  super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()

  welcomeText.contentOffset = .zero
}

HTH :)

Answer 3

In Swift 2

You can use this to make the textView start from the top:

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
    super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()

    myTextView.setContentOffset(CGPointZero, animated: false)
}

Confirmed working in Xcode 7.2 with Swift 2

Answer 4

Try this below code -

if ( [self respondsToSelector:@selector(setAutomaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets:)]){
     self.automaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets = NO;         
}

Or you can also set this property by StoryBoard -

Select ViewController then select attributes inspector now unchecked Adjust Scroll View Insets.